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Submission + - Facebook's Super Green Data Center Was Designed on a Napkin (businessinsider.com)

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on Friday August 10, 2012 @12:33PM

Julie188 writes: "Here's the actual napkin that shows the electrical design of Facebook's first super green data center, in Prineville, Ore. Facebook framed it. The story goes that Facebook data center designer, Jay Park, woke up in the middle of the night with the entire design in his head and couldn't find a piece of paper to write it on."

Submission + - Samsung just dumped $500M into the Linux Foundation (businessinsider.com) 1

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on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @06:15PM

Julie188 writes: "Samsung is stepping up its plans to best Apple's iOS. It just joined the Linux Foundation at the highest level, Platinum. This gives Samsung a seat on the Linux Foundation's board. Samsung wants to push Tizen and it hopes being a big cheese with the LF will help make it so."

Submission + - More Reasons Why Windows Users Will Hate Windows 8 (businessinsider.com)

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on Thursday May 31, 2012 @08:01PM

Julie188 writes: "Microsoft has a problem with Windows 8. After playing with the near final version released today, Business Insider editor Matt Rosoff decided that Microsoft must have been on drugs or something. "Unlike the iPad (and iPhone), which were immediately intuitive, Metro is not. A lot of the apps themselves are excellent, but as soon as you get out of the apps and into the "chrome" — the interface of the actual operating system — it gets weird.""

Submission + - Facebook open sources HTML5 mobile app test tool (businessinsider.com)

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on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @05:21PM

Julie188 writes: "Facebook is trying to make it easier for mobile app and game developers to use HTML5 instead of having to re-write each app for every device. It had earlier announced Ringmark, a tool that tests how an app does with each mobile browser. Today it released it as an open source project on GitHub.
Ringmark is trying to be like an ACID3 for mobile browsers. Maybe it can shame mobile browser makers into getting their act together."

Submission + - Torvalds helped teach Dries Buytaert how to make money on Drupal (businessinsider.com)

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on Saturday March 24, 2012 @06:14PM

Julie188 writes: "The story of Drupal is like the movie The Social Network in reverse. Drupal's creator Dries Buytaert is such a nice guy he used to do personal tech support for big Drupal users at night for free. Drupal was his college project that turned into his life — but it took him a long time (8 years) to figure out how to make a living from it. Linus Torvalds was one of the people that helped him figure out how."

Submission + - FCC wants ISPs to start killing Zombies (businessinsider.com)

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on Thursday March 22, 2012 @06:32PM

Julie188 writes: "Millions of PCs on the Internet are zombies. On Thursday the FCC officially asked ISPs to adopt a list of cyber-security practices to start knocking these things out. The list is obvious stuff you would think ISPs are doing anyway, like watching for botnet behavior and warning users if their PCs seem infected. But some action is better than no action and if ISPs agree, it will contribute to an effort to start collecting stats on botnets, too."

Submission + - How 'Corporate Antibodies' Can Kill Your Best Ideas (businessinsider.com)

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on Monday March 19, 2012 @08:19PM

Julie188 writes: "If you have a great idea for a new product or service would you try to launch it at your current job? Or would you try and do a startup? My experience is that a big corporate culture makes it impossible for an average employee to do an in-house project. Suggest an idea and politics will squash it. So it's funny that one of the most stodgy tech companies, HP, had an internal "innovation program." The guy that ran it recently left (was the PC group's CTO Phil McKinney) and now he's offering tips on how employees can navigate corporate politics and get their ideas taken seriously."

Submission + - Guy gets his old CCIE job back after stealing $2M from Cisco (businessinsider.com)

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on Thursday March 15, 2012 @03:26PM

Julie188 writes: "Imagine you are a Cisco CCIE working for a Cisco Gold reseller. You get convicted for stealing nearly $2 million worth of gear from Cisco through SMARTnet fraud. You are sentenced to 33 months in jail. You leave jail and your old company — a reseller that manages SMARTnet contracts — hires you right back. Tell me ... are honest CCIEs THAT hard to find?"

Submission + - Bill Gates Makes Progress On Reinvented Toilets (businessinsider.com)

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on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @03:56PM

Julie188 writes: "Last summer the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation spread $3 million in grants among eight research teams in North America, Asia, Africa and Europe, reports the Scientific American. This challenge is part of Gates' pledge last summer to spend $42 million to reinvent the toilet. The teams delivered a bunch of ways to turn human waste into energy."

Submission + - Did Microsoft secretly buy Parallels? (businessinsider.com)

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on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @03:57PM

Julie188 writes: "If you think that Stephen Elop was a Trojan plant from Microsoft into Nokia, you should see what Microsoft is doing with Parallels. Looks like the reason for Microsoft minions to take over Parallels has to do with its hosting software — as a way to squeeze Office 365 onto people already using cloud versions of Exchange. BUT Microsoft probably doesn't mind getting its fingers on Parallels popular desktop virtualization app, unbeknownst to all those Linux users of it."

Submission + - Cap for 2012 H-1B visas already hit (businessinsider.com)

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on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @07:07PM

Julie188 writes: "The jobless numbers don't reflect it, but there's a shortage of skilled workers available to fill high paying tech jobs. So it would seem by the rush to hire H-1B talent from overseas. It only took six months for U.S. companies to hit the 65,000 cap for visas (and this doesn't include 20,000 additional petitions for those who are exempt from the cap — or anyone already in the U.S. on a visa). And guess who leads the pack in overseas hiring?"

Submission + - Barnes & Noble names Microsoft's disputed Andr (networkworld.com)

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on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @12:35PM

Julie188 writes: "B&N is really blowing the lid off of what Microsoft is doing and how they are forcing money from Android. It has accused Microsoft of requiring overly restricted NDA agreements from those even entering into patent license talks. Because it is disputing Microsoft's claims, and the restrictions of its own NDA signed with Redmond, B&N has gone public. It has named in detail six patents that it says Microsoft is using to get Android device makers to pay up. Plus B&N is also trying to force open Microsoft's other plans for stomping out Android, including the agreement Redmond made with Nokia, and Nokia's patent-troll MOSAID."

Submission + - Survey shows IT certs are not a rip off (networkworld.com)

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on Monday November 14, 2011 @01:27PM

Julie188 writes: "Debate rages among IT professionals over the value of certifications, but a survey of 700 network professionals by Network World indicates that certs do improve IT careers. There's some caveats ... some certs are more valuable than others, for instance. The timing of when to get a cert is also important. Still, all told, the impact of certs on IT careers is impressive. Some 60% said a certification led to a new job; 50% said they earned more pay, with 40% saying their pay increased by more than 10% directly because of a certification; and 29% said a cert led to a promotion. Interestingly, respondents also named Cisco certifications as both the most, and the least, valuable."

Submission + - Test: Windows 8 on an old Asus Eee netbook (networkworld.com)

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on Monday November 07, 2011 @01:17PM

Julie188 writes: "Among the plethora of information regarding Windows 8 that Microsoft has so far disseminated is talk about a handful of optimizations meant to streamline, speed-up, or otherwise reduce Windows 8's footprint in comparison to Windows 7. So, blogger Marco Chiappetta set out to put these claims to a real world test on his old Asus Eee PC 900 netbook. The netbook didn't even meet Microsoft's minimum requirements for its W8 developer preview version. Yet Chiappetta was able to get W8 installed and running well. He logged some surprisingly good results verifying at least some of Microsoft's claims."

Submission + - Bing HTML5 app only for iPhone, Android (networkworld.com)

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on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @08:20PM

Julie188 writes: "Microsoft has rolled out a new mobile app for Bing built with HTML5 and available first only to iPhone and Android users. Guess even Microsoft isn't all that interested in developing for Windows Phone. It's also another indicator that Microsoft is turning away from its home-baked development platforms, .Net and Silverlight, and toward the industry-standard HTML5."

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